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1. 100 avos equal 1 pataca.
4. An industrial city in southern Poland on the Vistula.
10. An honorary degree in science.
13. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
14. Italian Benedictine monk who was archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109.
15. A coral reef off the southern coast of Florida.
16. Of or relating to or involving an area.
18. A hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color.
19. Lower in esteem.
21. (plate tectonic theory) A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.
23. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
24. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
25. An associate degree in nursing.
26. Top part of an apron.
30. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
33. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
35. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
37. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
38. Two items of the same kind.
40. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
41. A blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people.
43. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
44. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
46. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
47. A long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods).
49. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. A thermionic vacuum tube having three electrodes.
52. Reports of the work of a society or learned body etc.
56. A tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships.
59. The cry made by sheep.
60. A purgative made from the leaves of aloe.
63. A native American tent.
64. The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions.
65. Found along western Atlantic coast.
66. A branch of the Tai languages.
67. An informal term for a father.
68. Any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers.
69. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
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1. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
2. Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa Asia and Australia.
3. German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851).
4. Informal terms for money.
5. A radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium.
6. The residue that remains when something is burned.
7. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables.
8. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
9. A benevolent aspect of Devi.
10. A large number or amount.
11. Money in the form of bills or coins.
12. Colored or impregnated with dye.
17. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
20. A small cake leavened with yeast.
22. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
27. The striking of one body against another.
28. The title of the ancient Egyptian kings.
29. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion.
31. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
32. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk.
34. A user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text.
36. The sixth month of the civil year.
39. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
42. A member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota.
43. A large number or amount.
45. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
48. In regular succession without gaps.
49. The residue that remains when something is burned.
51. A battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC).
53. An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight.
54. An aromatic ointment used in antiquity.
55. Speaking a Slavic language.
57. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
58. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
61. A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined.
62. The compass point that is one point north of due east.
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